“This project was a study in urban bachelor-pad living,” says architect Cass Calder Smith of a two-story San Francisco house he built for a single 30-something.
For her Manhattan kitchen, Emmett Roepke’s film-producer client wanted a modern overhaul that was nonetheless mellow enough to let her cooking take center stage.
Painting pictures with words would seem to be a lawyer’s strength. But when a single father of two contacted Bethesda, Maryland–based Shinberg Levinas two and a half years ago requesting a master suite for his house nearby, partners Salo Levinas, AIA, and Antonio Vintro were given no hint that this suburban spread was dismal.
Casa Domus was just another model home in another Mexico City-area subdivision when an Italian furniture importer and her husband purchased it, and subsequently asked the developer to leave any outstanding interior work unfinished.
Part of a re-design for a lackluster but well located town house in the center of downtown Toronto, this efficient yet kitchen provides the owners with a formal dining/entertaining room and an area for casual eating—both indoors and out.
Los Angeles, California Swift Lee Office Textural elements modify stark simplicity. Photo ' Elon Schoenholz This basic white kitchen, part of the rehab of a 1960s Beverly Hills residence, pushes all the right buttons with it’s monochromatic palette, floating work stations, wall of tall cabinets for storage and appliances, lots of natural light, terrazzo flooring, and a dimensionally textural wall made of a custom masonry veneer that mimics an existing pattern along the home’s west exterior wall—once again proving that over used axiom, “God is in the details”. Architect: Swift Lee Office Interior Designer: Carole Katleman General Contractor: Hans J.
Designed for a concert cellist cum underwater photographer, this kitchen in a 1910 San Francisco loft is part of a residence/gallery/recital space meant to be as public as it is private.
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